SummaryGabrielle (Marion Cotillard) comes from a small village in the South of France, at a time when her dream of true love is considered scandalous, and even a sign of insanity. Her parents marry her to José (Alex Brendemühl), an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her. Despite José’s devotion to her, ... Read More
Directed By:Nicole Garcia
Written By:Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia, Natalie Carter, Milena Agus
From the Land of the Moon
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Mixed or Average
40
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Generally Favorable
6.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
18% Positive
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47% Mixed
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6 Reviews
6 Reviews
May 20, 2016
70
The ingredients of an old-fashioned romantic weepie are given class and conviction by director Nicole Garcia whose elegant restraint helps to ground the more fanciful elements in some sense of reality. Her approach also makes the eleventh hour revelations easier to swallow.
Jul 27, 2017
60
The film could be shorter and perhaps more logical, and as the soap opera drama builds, the timeline becomes muddled. Still, there’s something pleasantly old-fashioned about its commitment to grandiose emotion.
Aug 3, 2017
50
Garcia never gets a grasp on her protagonist’s contradictions, or those of her story — certainly not enough to pull off the movie’s jaw-dropper of a twist. But she conjures a powerful sensuality, and Cotillard burns ferociously bright, even when the center does not hold.
Jun 8, 2017
40
From the Land of the Moon is a story about how good it feels to feel very, very bad – and how a life lived in rapturous misery is somehow more valuable than mild domestic contentment. That might ring truer if Garcia wasn’t working in such a starchy register.
Jul 26, 2017
33
Cotillard tries hard to fashion a credible human being from this collection of shallow adolescent impulses, but the movie infantilizes Gabrielle at every turn.
Aug 3, 2017
25
From the Land of the Moon features a typical Cotillard performance, yet the romance, from French actress and filmmaker Nicole Garcia, manages to convey neither triumph nor tragedy.
May 20, 2016
16
Your time would be better spent staring at a postcard for two hours. No, not even the presence of the usually magnetic Marion Cotillard will stave off the boredom of Garcia and Jacques Fieschi‘s screenplay.
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Nov 24, 2017
10
this starts like a bad relationship. it continues awkwardly. i like how much better it bcomes. i can self identify with the minor actress in the fourth scene.
Aug 11, 2017
2
Sadly what can you do when an Oscar winning, deservedly, actress works with a screenplay, actors, a director and even a music score that works against her? “From the Land of the Moon” as a title makes even less sense than the movie, which took 2 screenwriters to adapt from a novel. Marion Cotillard can either be crazy or a nymphomaniac or a crazy nymphomaniac or neither but it really doesn’t make a difference. She marries a man she tells she won’t have sex with and either has an affair with a gravely ill or doesn’t with the bottom line meaning nothing when the ‘great’ reveal comes at the end. Marion Cotillard is always a joy to watch and if the 2-hour film had just eliminated everything, every character and just showed her it would have been worth seeing but no way can I recommend this film!
Production Company:
- Trésor Films
- StudioCanal
- France 3 Cinéma
- Pauline's Angel
- My Unity Production
- Lunanime
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- Cofinova 12
- La Banque Postale Image 9
- Indéfilms 4
- Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- Lum.Invest
- Meñakoz Films
- Wild Bunch
Release Date:Jul 28, 2017
Duration:2 h
Rating:R
Tagline:Sometimes Love is the Only Thing That's Real
Awards
César Awards, France
• 8 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Nominations
